Trying to figure out how I managed to beat some of you authors this time is above my pay grade. I liked my story, but Philip’s story was so well written I thought I didn’t have a prayer. Especially with my alternate ending that I substituted before posting. Maybe my wife was right after all, because she didn’t like it and told me to change it. If you read my post to Ken in reply to his comments, you can read the alternate ending.

Thanks, guys. I didn’t expect this and kudos to each of you. Keep writing.

Congrats, Roy, Anindita for being my 1 and 2 and to you too, Phil, for being the ‘maestro’ you are. Writing alongside writers like you, I get to hone my skills.
Savour your successes and keep winning hearts.

Congrats Roy on I am betting a well deserved win. I was hoping to at least vote after reading the stories. However I didn’t even get to finish reading all the stories and so I couldn’t vote. I’m sorry no excuse except I was doing a lot of work this week but congratulations the winners and I’m hoping to be in this week’s competition even though I’m not big on sports writing, I’m going to try and write a sports writing story. Now I’m off to read those stories that I didn’t get a chance to vote one, it’s my weekend rating ! 😊